Gun Control & RKBA

http://nypost.com/2012/04/02/cuomo-whacks-pataki-gun-law/

It was expensive and didn't solve a single crime. Microstamping is just a new wrinkle on ballistic fingerprinting. A key difference is that old-style ballistic fingerprinting depended on reading the markings that were already there from the routine functioning of the firearm. Microstamping will create new marks specifically for ID purposes. However, it will be no more effective than COBIS was because it proceeds from the same flawed premise: that matching spent brass found at crime sites will enable arrests and prosecutions. That theory is full of holes, as has been explained time and time again and as has been proven by New York's example.

And of course the main difference is that COBIS was paid for by the state with tax money. Microstamping's costs will be borne by the manufacturers and consumers of firearms. And that's really the whole point, isn't it? Who cares about solving crimes? It's all about culture war and thinking of new ways to fuck with gun owners and manufacturers